About Lower Keys Medical Center -Depoo Medical Building – Key West
Lower Keys Mental Health Center – DePoo Building, formerly Key West Mental Health Center, is a drug and alcohol treatment center that supports adults with substance use disorders, centrally located in Key West, Florida. They also provide valuable community resources, such as referrals, mental health services, and specialty medical care.
Services at Lower Keys Mental Health Center – DePoo Building include mental health assessments, inpatient residential treatment, counseling, and intensive outpatient programs.
Mental Health Assessment and Counseling
Assessments help clinicians to evaluate a client’s mental health for substance use disorder, the severity, and any co-occurring mental health conditions. This helps to create an individualized and goal-oriented treatment plan to support the client’s recovery efforts. Treatment may involve individual, group, and family counseling.
Inpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
The residential addiction treatment program is for adults over 18 and is run by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. Credentialed mental health specialists provide 24-hour nursing care and address the behavioral health of participants through a comprehensive assessment and treatment plan, counseling, educational classes, recovery meetings, and skill development. Participants may benefit from medication management, family therapy, occupational therapy, and learn new stress management techniques.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Outpatient is for individuals over 18 who need addiction treatment, but don’t need 24-hour care. The program at Lower Keys Mental Health Center is run for three hours a day, three days a week. Treatment includes individual and group counseling, skills development groups, psychiatric treatment for dual-diagnosis participants, and aftercare.